Former American Idol contestant on the run after 'robbing couple at gunpoint'

He sang his way past Simon Cowell and went to Hollywood but now one former American Idol contestant is on the run after Florida police claim he robbed a couple at gunpoint.

Antonio Wheeler, 25, was in a Target parking lot selling what turned out to be fake computers to couple Fletcher Carroll and Heather Creary on Saturday when he pulled up his shirt to reveal a gun and demanded money.

'Apparently when you go on American Idol and you don't win, you go out
and pull the (expletive deleted) he's doing,' Daytona Beach Police
Chief Mike Chitwood told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

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On the run: Former American Idol contestant Antonio Wheeler is on the run after police say he robbed a couple in a Target parking lot

There's now a warrant out for Wheeler on armed robbery.

Wheeler - or 'Skii Bo Skii' to fans of the reality show -
appeared in the show's 2010 season singing 'I Heard it Through the
Grapevine' as his audition song.

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But court records show that Wheeler's trouble with the law goes back much further than 2010.

Wheeler has been arrested at least 25 times, starting when he was just 11 years old in 1998 on a petty theft charge.

Most recently he was picked up on a theft charge this October filed by the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Wheeler also sued Orlando police and the city for a 2005 incident in which an officer stunned him with a Taser after he he swallowed crack cocaine and refused a urine sample.

Run: Police say Wheeler sped from the scene of the robbery in this black car, caught on parking lot security cameras

At the time, Wheeler told USA Today the officer had 'tased the (urine) out of me.

He hasn't given up on music though. Wheeler has a Facebook page with 1,000 friends and images of a tour bus he's ridden in with the words 'The Skiiboski State of Mind,' painted on the side.

Police are investigating whether the Target parking lot robbery is linked to a seperate fake computer sale that happened 30 minutes earlier on the same day.

In that incident, shopper Felicia Bunker was approached by suspect Torrence Canady in the parking lot of a Sav-A-Lot who the women he needed money to get home and hada computer for sale in his car.

Bunker told police she gave him $400 for a FedEx box that was supposed to have a computer inside but never checked the merchandise, finding it to just a piece of glass with a black frame wrapped in plastic when she got home.

Canady was arrested later that day.

In Wheeler's case, he'd already finished selling the fake computer when he flashed his gun and demanded more money.